The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-09-10
GOOD MEN TO VOTE FOR.
Nominees of the State Republican Con-
vention-Who They Are and What
They Are.


There is no name in Maryland better known or
more highly esteemed than that of Mr.. Walter B.
Brooks, the head of the Republican ticket His
name is synonym for business capacity, strict
integrity and public spirit. There is no man who
is personally or in his business relations more
thoroughly identified with the interests of the State
or the prosperity of its citizens. His father and
himself have, on many occasions, displayed
lberality and public spirit that have saved and
preserved great institutions involving millions of
dollars, to the people of the State. The name of
Chauncey Brooks will 60 down to posterity as
one of those energetic and courageous merchants
who laid the first foundations of great and pros
porous city, and staked his fortune and his labors
upon the success of the people among whom he had
taken up his residence. Young Chauncey Brooks
came to Baltimore in 1872, and engaged in the dry
goods business in partnership with General Walter
Booth. He was unusually successful, but the
wealth he accumulated was devoted to the build
ing up of the city and the advancement of his fell
low citizens During his mercantile career he
furnished the capital for no less than thirty COM
mercial establishments. When the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad was almost bankrupt, he and Johns
Hopkins pledged their individual estates and their
fortunes to the payment of the poorest laborers
of the road. He took similar interest in the
public institutions of the State Mr.. Walter B.
Brooks has followed in his fathers footsteps, and
has continued the same public spirited career.
He is now sixty-tw years of age. He took a col
legiate course at Princeton College, and, after
graduating, went into the dry goods business, in
which he continued until the war broke out, when
he retired from business. About ten years ago he
was elected president of the Canton Company
At that time the stock of the company was selling
at fourteen dollars a share. By his excellent bus
mess abilities and his strict attention to the needs
of the concern, Mr.. Brooks has brought the affairs
of the company to the high-water mark of success,
and the shares are now quoted at sixty dollars
He is universally recognized as prudent, cautious
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stable judgment. He has demonstrated that he
possesses more fully, perhaps, than any other man
who might have been named, the abilities to give
this State sound and business-like admnistra
tion, economical, prudent and honorable.
MR.. ROBERT D. DIXON.
Mr. Robert B. Dixon, of Talbot, the nominee
for Comptroller, is of the most influential and
popular men on the Eastern Shore, with whose
people he is largely interested in business and
agricultural enterprises. He is engaged in num-
Der of business enterprises, but principally in coal
and numbering. He has also several fine farms.
Mr.. Dixon is director of the Easton National
Bank and of the Marylany Steamboat Company.
He represented Talbot in the legislature of 1882,
and rendered great service to the State while at
Annapolis, where he was regarded as one of the
leaders of the minority forces, and safe and pru-
dent counsellor. Mr.. Dixon is sound fnancier,
and in his business enterprises has shown himself
to be possessed of excellent judgment and all the
qualifications necessary to make an able and re-
liable custodian of the Comptroller's office. He
lives with his family in pleasant homo on the
Wye river, near Easton, and is generally recog-
nized as one of the most public-spirited citizens
of the county.
MR.. FRANC MILLER.
Hon. Francis Miller is one of the best-known
and most highly respected Republicans in the
State. He was born in Alexandria, Va in 1929,
and is a we'll known member of the Society OF
Friends His father was merchant in Aexan-
dria, and was for many years identified with the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Alexandria
Canal. Mr.. Miller was educated by Benjamin
Hallowe, and afterwards graduated at Yale Col
lege, in 1852. He married Miss Caroline Hallowel,
the daughter of his tutor, and after leaving Yale
taught school in Alexandria and in Montgomery
county. He studied law under A. G. Riddle in
Washington, and has practiced at the bar ever
since. In 1876 and 1877 he was United States
district attorney for the District of Columbia and
resigned in the spring of 1885. Mr.. Miller was
candidate for chief judge of the circuit embracing
Frederick and Montgomery counties when Hon.
John Richie was elected. He was the nominee
of the Republicans for Comptroller in 1885.